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Eddie Murphy has been cast as the voice of Hong Kong Phooey in a big screen version of Hanna-Barbera’s animated TV series. Directed by Alex Zamm ( Dr. Dolittle: Million Dollar Mutts ), the film will mix live action with animation. Already well known as the voice of Donkey in …

The final chapter of the Harry Potter franchise has earned a total of $1.137 billion globally, bringing it in at third place on the list of highest grossing films of all time. The figure should make the movie 2011’s most successful film by a comfortable margin. Harry Potter And The …

Anne Hathaway has spoken out about the criticism levelled at her Catwoman costume in the film The Dark Knight Rises . The first official image of her riding the Bat-pod was released last week (see above) and fans showed disappointment – to put it mildly – at her character’s look. …

The classic Irish sitcom Father Ted had a great conceit: its characters just happened to be priests, but first, foremost and with extreme fallibility they were, simply, humans. We’ve seen this trick before in cop films, but John Michael McDonagh’s melancholic comedy displays much of Ted’s cock-eyed charm. Without overstating …

Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar’s 18th feature – his first with one-time muse Antonio Banderas since 1990’s Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! – explores the director’s oft-worked themes of sexual identity and desire while exhibiting his fondness for vivid colours, vibrant melodrama and zesty living spaces. Yet in adapting Thierry …

Jennifer Lopez and Nick Nolte will join Jason Statham in noir thriller Parker , which boasts Taylor Hackford as its director. The Stath’s casting was announced back in April; he’ll play the title character in the movie which is adapted from Donald Westlake’s series of novels. Lopez is launching something …

You get two Dominic Coopers for the price of one in Lee Tamahori’s latest, a fact-based thriller about a man who spent four years being the ‘fiday’ (double) of Saddam Hussein’s deranged son Uday. That much is corroborated, both by public record and by double Latif Yahia himself, a former …

Conceived as an authentically French riposte to John Huston’s Moulin Rouge, Jean Renoir’s 1954 film offers a romanticised take on the founding of Montmartre’s most famous nightspot. Jean Gabin is impresario Danglard, juggling rich backers, bailiffs and various mistresses to achieve his ambition. If the film lacks the social bite …

Tom Hardy has spoken exclusively to Total Film about his role as Bane in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises . We recently sat down for a chat with the rising star (as certified by Bafta), and couldn’t resist asking him about his role in the epic Bat-threequel. He told …

Willem Dafoe and Rob Kazinsky are the latest names to sign up for Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim . The pair join the already-cast likes of Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Charlie Day and Rinko Kikuchi in the monster movie. The mouthwatering pitch sees human-piloted robots facing off against an alien …